TY  - BOOK
AU  - Romano,Gabriella
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy: The Case of 'G' 
T2  - Genders and Sexualities in History
SN  - 9783030009946
AV  - DG11-980.2 
U1  - 945 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
KW  - Italy—History
KW  - Civilization—History
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - History
KW  - Social history
KW  - History of Italy
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Gender and Sexuality
KW  - History of Science
KW  - Social History
N1  - 1. Introduction -- 2. “Dangerous to Themselves and Others, and of Public Scandal”: The Internment Procedure -- 3.“Psychic Degenerate”: Why G. Was Interned -- 4. “He and I”: G’.s Voice -- 5. "I'll have you sent to confino". How the fascist regime punished and repressed homosexuality -- 6. “House of Sorrow”: The Collegno Asylum in 1928–1931 -- 7. “My Untamed, Alone, Naked Will”: Freedom -- 8. Conclusions; Open Access
N2  - This open access book investigates the pathologisation of homosexuality during the fascist regime in Italy through an analysis of the case of G., a man with "homosexual tendencies" interned in the Collegno mental health hospital in 1928. No systematic study exists on the possibility that Fascism used internment in an asylum as a tool of repression for LGBT people, as an alternative to confinement on an island, prison or home arrests. This research offers evidence that in some cases it did. The book highlights how the dictatorship operated in a low-key, shadowy and undetectable manner, bending pre-existing legislation. Its brutality was - and still is - difficult to prove. It also emphasises the ways in which existing stereotypes on homosexuality were reinforced by the regime propaganda in support of its so-called moralising campaign and how families, the police and the medical professionals joined forces in implementing this form of repression
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00994-6
ER  -